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Wild Alive Outside

Forest science, ancestral crafts, wilderness skills

Ancestral Crafts

Bear Creek Explorers

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Adventurous youth spend a full-day weekly in the woods practicing forest science, wilderness skills, crafting, and exploring.  This program cultivates nature connection and self-reliance while providing extended time outside with peers. Ideal for ages 10-13.

Wild Ways Family Days

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Community Science

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Wild Alive Outside

It’s tax season, and one of my other jobs, a reluctant bookkeeper, is taking more time out of my week than it does the rest of the year. I should be filing 1099s right now, but I’m taking...

Lichen

When we arrived this week, the rain gauge was frozen solid. The pond was ice-free but crystal clear. We saw three newts swimming in the muck below. The mosture from the wet medow makes beautiful ice...

Searching for sensors in the sleet

We had a very mild fall, but this week, our first BCE of winter and the first week back after break, Mother Nature finally gave us an authentic Oregon winter experience. But before I dive into this...